Director: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Faculty - Department - Cape Peninsula University of Technology -> Office of the Vice Chancellor -> DVC: Operations - Campus/ Location - Bellville Campus - Bellville, Cape Town, WC ZA (Primary) District Six Campus - Cape Town, WC ZA - Job Type - Permanent - Occupational Function - Support / Admin - Number of Positions - 1 - Annual Salary Package (incl. Medical Aid rate based on principal member only) - To be confirmed - Advert Closing Date - 2/3/2025 - Job Purpose The Director: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery is responsible for the development of the Business Continuity Strategy, programmes and plans to support response, develop resilience and enable recovery from events that disrupt Institutional operations. The Director: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery will be responsible for developing a framework and methodology that will enable the Institution to manage all business continuity life cycle activities including risk assessment, business impact analysis, implementation testing and review. Such frameworks and methodologies will result from the study and identification of trends across a diverse range of fields and empower the University to identify potential existential threats and proactively develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans that will be activated when such threats become imminent. These fields include but are not limited to international; national and institutional trends relating to the higher education landscape; energy & infrastructure; climate change; healthcare and epidemiology; human dynamics and civil disobedience; socio-economic trends; and nutrition and food security. The mitigation strategies are both intended to prevent the occurrence of such threats by ensuring a long-term plan is in place; as well as protecting the institution if it becomes evident that such a threat is unavoidable. - Job Knowledge, Skills and Experience - Master’s degree in one of the disciplines related to the management of business continuity and disaster recovery operations, e.g. Operations Management; Industrial Engineering; Quality Management or Project Management. - 7 years relevant technical experience of which 2 years must be experience gained at the management level in a higher education environment. - Relevant Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk or Audit certifications preferred. (One or more certifications MBCP, CBCP, ABCP, CRISC, CISA) - Key Performance Areas / Principal Accountabilities **1. Strategic Development** - Development of effective and efficient business continuity strategies, policies, procedures, protocols, and governance structures; - Develop and manage a conducive environment for the implementation and periodic review of the institutional business continuity strategy; - Develop relevant policies on the management of business continuity in the institution; **2. Development of Business Continuity Platforms** - Create and manage institutional business continuity platforms, structures, committees or other forms of institutional governance in the realm of business continuity; - Accurate, continuous, and timeous detection of any existential threats to the continuity of the institution’s operations; - Create and coordinate cluster teams for the management of identified business continuity threats; **3. Risk and Threat management** - Updates risk analyses and business impact analyses for any existential threats to the continuity of the institution’s operations; - Scan international, national and institutional trends in order to identify existential threats to the normal operational functions of the institution on the short-; medium-; and long-term; - Updates disaster recovery or contingency plans on the short-; medium-; and long-term for any existential threats to the continuity of the institution’s operations on both the overall level, as well as for the various functions within in the organisation; - Fully functioning cluster teams for any existential threats to the continuity of the institution’s operations that are knowledgeable to advise Executive Management; Divisions; or Deans within their respective fields of expertise and manage interventions as required; - Provide oversight of all risk analyses and business impact analyses of identified threats; **4. Operational Management & Special projects** - Create and maintain a project execution environment that is able to create and manage an effective response to these matters in order to ensure continuity in critical operations or any other matter that may have a material effect on the normal operations of the institution as directed by Executive Management or the DVC: Operations. - Create an environment within which business continuity projects and interventions as required by Executive Management are executed. - Ensure that effective operational plans and measures are put in place to avoid the realization of these threats - Develop and periodically review contingency plans for the short-; medium-; and lo